Softwaretechcrunch.com
Google opened Playground on October 7, an experimental site where you describe a game and its AI builds it.
“Anyone can make a game now. Making a fun one still takes rounds.”
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Tools & Gearyoutube.com
I asked Android users in a YouTube poll on October 2 what's stopping them from getting an iPhone, and most of the people who answered just like Android more.
Infrastructureresearch.meta.ai
Meta released Muse Spark Open on October 15, a model with 816 billion parameters, 42 billion of them active.
Tools & Gearmacrumors.com
Anyone who creates a Withings account on October 13 or later needs a Withings+ subscription for automatic syncing to Apple Health, MacRumors reported, at $99.50 a year in the U.S.
Sources MacRumors · Tech Between the Lines · iThinkDiff · Engadget · Gadgets & Wearables · iDevice · Withings community
Drama & Failurespcgamer.com
Alliance Arts was going to release a public Steam demo of Drunken Goddess Reflux on October 19, and then it canceled it.
Sources PC Gamer · Twisted Voxel · Kotaku · KeenGamer
Softwareregexmarblerun.com
Regex Marble Run is a free web page that builds your regular expression as a 3D machine.
Sources Regex Marble Run · Hacker News · Hacker News · Stack Overflow · Cloudflare
In a rented room above a bar in Astoria, Queens, Carlson and Otto Kornei copied the words "10-22-38 ASTORIA" using a sulfur-coated zinc plate rubbed with a handkerchief and dusted with lycopodium powder. Then they went out to lunch. Xerox, The Henry Ford, In-Plant Impressions
Microsoft opened its first retail store the same day, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company said 8 million people had tested the beta. Microsoft News
It weighed one pound: 28 percent lighter and 20 percent thinner than the iPad before it, with a bezel 43 percent narrower. Apple Newsroom
Microsoft stopped letting PC makers preinstall Windows XP Home on new netbooks, closing the last door it had left open for a 2001 operating system. Plenty of people kept running it for years anyway. Windows Experience Blog (Microsoft)
Tools & Gearmacrumors.com
iPhone Duo preorders opened October 16, and the number I'd look at before the $1,999 starting price is $999.
Tools & Geargadgetreview.com
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a price.
Retrogithub.com
A developer who goes by antirez put c64-hw-sim on GitHub, and it simulates the Commodore 64's motherboard pin by pin.
Weird Techcelphase.github.io
A developer who goes by celphase built The Duck Pond, a web page with a small flock of mallards on it: three hens, two drakes and two broods of ducklings.
Weird Techengadget.com
Four AI agents just beat Minecraft with nobody steering.
Developer Talesblog.picheta.me
Dominik Picheta built a programming language that coding AIs aren't supposed to be able to use, and he named it KillSwitch.
Softwaregithub.com
A developer who goes by kksimp put a project on GitHub, Mac dot apk, that runs Android apps on Apple Silicon Macs with no emulator and no virtual machine.
Retrotheregister.com
Aaron Ardiri, the developer behind the Palm OS port of Lemmings, just published about a gigabyte of old Palm OS development material on GitHub.
Retroen.wikipedia.org
Windows 98 went on sale on June 25, 1998, according to Wikipedia, and in 2026 it can read a Thunderbolt NVMe drive.
Tools & Geargizmodo.com
Apple's first foldable starts at $1,999, and Gizmodo reported that its ship dates slipped from launch day, October 23, to mid-November in under five minutes.
Retrohackaday.com
A maker who goes by TechPaula built a laptop around a 6502, the 8-bit chip from the 1970s that Hackaday points out was in the Apple II, and now they've finished a second one.
Infrastructuredns.museum
DNS is the internet's phone book, the thing that turns a name into an address, and somebody built it a museum.
Drama & Failuresvals.ai
Vals AI gave six assistants a £350 train refund to chase after the deadline had passed.
Weird Techspace.blog.gov.uk
The UK Space Agency is inviting UK residents to name its Active Debris Removal Mission.
Hacks & Buildsgithub.com
Vik Olliver's RepRapMicron project is trying to bring home workshop fabrication down to the micron scale.
Tools & Geartheedgemalaysia.com
Tim Cook told The Paper, a state-backed Chinese outlet, that Apple Intelligence has been approved in China and that a test version is due later in October, Reuters reported.
Securitythereallo.dev
A self-hoster who blogs as Thereallo found a new South Park episode stuck in his media server's queue, and it wasn't an episode at all.
Tools & Gearspectrum.ieee.org
Agility Robotics built its newest humanoid to get out of your way by sitting on the floor.
